Loss News:
As always there are many announcements from KotaPress. We hope you will find these helpful, and feel free to contact us via email at info@kotapress.com or via phone at 206-251-6706 if you need further information.
»»The 2002 MISS Conference "Passages" is a bereavement support conference for professional care givers, medical professionals, and bereaved parents from around the world. This year's conference will be in Pheonix AZ on May 23-25, 2002. See www.MissFoundation.org for full info.
»»Friends of Mrs. Duck is a subscription membership for $10/month. Your trial period of 2 month/$20 will be billed first; then regular subscription of $10/month will start. By showing your commitment by becoming a Friend of Mrs Duck, you get:
- a free lifetime subscription to the Members-only Newsletters from KotaPress
- a year's free subscription to the quarterly print zine "A Different Kind of Parenting: a zine for parents whose children have died"
- a free copy of the KotaPress Poetry Anthology
AND the best part is your membership subscription directly supports outreach to bereaved parents provided through our Loss Journal and helps us continue to provide support based on the ideas presented in the Mrs. Duck and the Woman book. We also hope you will consider purchasing Sponsored paperback copies of the book as well.
»»KotaPress
has landed on Vashon Island with the following new contact information:
Phone: 206-251-6706
Location: Vashon Island, WA
»»In the Company
of Angels:
reading and journaling about loss and mourning
(10 weeks)
The ten-week course, taught by Allegra Wong, begins to explore the mourning
process and helps participants define the seasons of grief. Through reading
some of the literature of mourning and through journaling (guided exercises),
loss is confronted in relationships, current events, and also in the stages
of human life. http://www.writers.com/allegrawong.htm
email: ah@meganet.net
»» Gov. Gary
Locke signed a proclamation to officially make October 15th "Pregnancy
and Infant Loss Day" in Washington state. You can see the proclamation
at:
http://www.pain-heartache-hope.com/proclamation_updates.htm
»» Want to support
Mrs. Duck?! Now you can make a donation to Mrs. Duck through our non-profit
umbrella organization M.I.S.S.. We at KotaPress believe so whole-heartedly
in the work of M.I.S.S. that we house the Seattle chapter's web information
in our Loss section and we
offer them our office space as a base for the Seattle chapter. You can
support the Mrs. Duck Project thru SeattleM.I.S.S. which is the Seattle,
WA, local chapter for the national non-profit org M.I.S.S.ing (Mission
for Infant Survival & Stillbirth In Natural Grieving/ Mothers In Sympathy
& Support).
M.I.S.S. recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 with a tax ID number. The
national office is physically located in Arizona, and the website is hosted
at www.MissChildren.org.
If you wish to support the Mrs. Duck Project, you can send a check or
money order donation to the SeattleM.I.S.S. group with a note asking that
that funds be earmarked for Mrs. Duck. They will use 80% of the donation
to fund the making of more Mrs. Duck books which we give away free. 10%
will go toward the local chapter so they can continue offering free support
group meetings, one-on-one crisis help, and mailing outreach literature.
And the last 10% will go to the national office to support their outreach
and the medical research that is happening about stillbirth at The Pregnancy
Institute. The SeattleM.I.S.S. is registered with the state of Washington
Charities Programs. For more information, please feel free to email
or call Kara at 206-251-6706.
You'll have to remember to keep checking back here for the latest, or you could just:
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